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liberatory

liberatory

1 7.7
Helping people become free from unfair control
  • adjective
  • /ˈlɪbərətɔri/
  • Formal
translation icon : liberador
  • Tij songs were longstanding tools of critical analysis for Nepali women and a means to evoke a liberatory vision of gender equality.

Another alternate history is what we could call a sort of liberatory penetration of the present.

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Examples

  • In the emotional atmosphere of Tij, the songs opened up an alternative world and a liberatory vision of how things might change.

    Academic text (2008)

  • The activists organized a march to promote a liberatory movement for social justice.

  • She she was looking for something a bit more liberatory, you could say.

  • And in order to recognize that you are on a liberatory path, you might have to leave the path that you're on.

    Stanford

  • We also read Freire's Pedagogy of the Oppressed (1970), which emphasizes the liberatory potential of education to interrupt existing social inequalities.

    Academic text (2018)

  • She believes that art can play a liberatory role in expressing freedom and challenging oppression.

  • The workshop aimed to provide liberatory tools for individuals seeking to break free from societal constraints.

Synonyms

liberative
vsliberatory
7.7

Causing people to become free from unfair control

is intended to cause freedom rather than only having a freeing effect
emancipative
vsliberatory
  • Formal
9.1

Making a person or group free from control

is intended to cause freedom deliberately rather than merely tending to free

Antonyms

restrictive
52 4.7

Limits what people can do by rules or laws

oppressive
43 6.3

Using harsh, unfair power to control people and limit their freedom

How Liberating

liberatory
  • Formal
1 7.7
restrictive
52 4.7
oppressive
43 6.3

Surface Forms

liberatory positive

Morphology

liberatory = liberate (transparent) = liberate + ory

Direct adjectival formation from the verb 'liberate' with '-ory', meaning 'relating to or causing liberation'.

Etymology

Liberatory comes from the Latin root liber 'free' and the verb liberare 'to free'. It shares this root with liberty and liberate, so something liberatory is meant to help set people free.